Skye wakes up, remembering her last life, dying on an operating table while her husband Liam soaked in a bath with his mistress. This time, she rips up the white dress he gave her, wears red, and bids for a patch of dirt that will be worth twenty times more in six months. She allies with the elusive Alistair Thorne, trading millions for his hand in destroying Liam's trade gala. Through poison plots, power grabs, and Seraphina's web of lies, Skye dismantles them one by one. At her own funeral, she walks through the door in deep crimson. Liam kneels with a diamond ring, but Skye turns to Alistair, who pins a silver eagle on her collar: "Touch her, touch Thorne."
